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Anstey College

When I worked for Claribel Coaches 1966-69 I used to take the students to Snowdonia for outward bound training, I would take them, leave them and fetch them back the following week. They also used to go to Scotland for ski-ing in the winter, the driver that took them there used to stay with them all the time that they were there. That was a cream job, never did manage to do that one.
Bit like when we used to take the Littlewood girls to RAF Gaydon or the inner and outer circle route from the Tower ballroom, never any shortages of volunteers:)
 
I went to Green Lanes School and they discovered I had spinal curvature so I was sent to Anstey College. It was on Chester Road just up from Chester Road Station and although I was only 9, I was told that it was indeed a PE Teacher training college. I lived in Court Lane and used to walk both to school and home from school as the S73 midland red bus did not run at the right times to use it. I believe it ran as the S73 from Beggars Bush to Chester Road tram terminus and then changed number and ran along Boldmere Road and back then reverted to the Chester Road run. I never knew if those ladies cured my spinal curvature
Bob
 
Just found this photo on Ebay. Never heard of this place before. Interested reading the posts on here.
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new to me as well froth..wonder where it was situated looks a nice building but i bet its not there now
 
I had a number of friends who went to Anstey to train as teachers specialising in PE. It was near Wylde Green. If you were travelling on #28 to on the Chester Road (near the Bowling Alley) I'm pretty sure there used to be a brown sign with gold writing on the roadside with "Anstey College of Physical Education" written on it. Think the sign had a gable on the top. Viv.
 
Anstey was a P.E. college and its students ran classes as part of their training. I was deemed to be round shouldered and flat footed and had to attend them. I remember that we had to balance on narrow beams and pick up bean bags with our toes. The old college has long since gone and the site now contains old people's bungalows.

The old Wylde Green Pavilion cinema, a short distance away on the other side of Chester Road, has also been demolished and houses built on the site. The old cinema was turned into a bowling alley for a time.

My grandparents lived in Holifast Road, and it appears that the land upon which their house was built had once been an orchard. Their garden contained a very prolific pear tree and we seemed to live on pears throughout the year.
 
I went to Green Lanes School and they discovered I had spinal curvature so I was sent to Anstey College. It was on Chester Road just up from Chester Road Station and although I was only 9, I was told that it was indeed a PE Teacher training college. I lived in Court Lane and used to walk both to school and home from school as the S73 midland red bus did not run at the right times to use it. I believe it ran as the S73 from Beggars Bush to Chester Road tram terminus and then changed number and ran along Boldmere Road and back then reverted to the Chester Road run. I never knew if those ladies cured my spinal curvature
Bob
 
The S73 (known to us as 'the little bus') ran from 'the terminus' (where the trams terminated by the Yenton pub) along the Chester Road, possibly terminated at the Hardwick Arms, and at one time probably travelling along Bakers Lane and for a short distance continuing via Sutton Oak Road and George Frederick Road. We lived in Banners Gate at the time and my grandmother caught the S73 when she visited us every Tuesday to bring fresh fish from the fishmonger's near the Yenton. We then had fish and chips, the latter being home-made - real potatoes turned into chips by means of a chip-making gadget.
 
Our 'little red bus' was either the S67 or the S76, can't remember which one went down Court Lane and which one went down Goosemoor Lane. I'm sure somebody will put me right.
Anstey College was demolished to make way for a shared ownership/social housing development. We were re-building our scout den after an arson attack and bought their gym floor. A team took the floor up and numbered each piece so that it would all fit together again. It still had the rubbers screwed to the bottom as the floor had originally been sprung. Needless to say these were removed as the boys didn't need any more bounce!
 
Our 'little red bus' was either the S67 or the S76, can't remember which one went down Court Lane and which one went down Goosemoor Lane. I'm sure somebody will put me right.
Anstey College was demolished to make way for a shared ownership/social housing development. We were re-building our scout den after an arson attack and bought their gym floor. A team took the floor up and numbered each piece so that it would all fit together again. It still had the rubbers screwed to the bottom as the floor had originally been sprung. Needless to say these were removed as the boys didn't need any more bounce!
Lady P And Paula.
The S67 was via Court Lane and the &S76 via Goosemoor Lane. When I used the S73 it ran e very hour Beggars Bush to the Yenton, then to Boldmere back to the Yenton and then back to Beggars Bush. However somewhere in the dark depths I can remember it did occasionally go to Banners Gate. The 67 and 76 ran alternately every half hour.

Bob
 
When I caught the S67 it ran on the hour and half hour and the S76 ran on the quarter past and quarter to the hour (except for some reason I thought they were the other way around - memory letting me down again. I often caught one of them journeying to and from school. The bus had to be 'little' to avoid the railway bridge on Summer Lane but later they put a double decker on the route and detoured up South Road and Reservoir Road.
 
May be useful for those researching family. Lists of students and staff of the college in 1952, 1953 and 1954.
 

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